Contributors
- Contributors
J. Michael Francis is Associate Professor of Latin American History at the University of North Florida. His research focuses on early-colonial New Granada. He has recently published articles in Fronteras de la historia and the Colonial Latin American Historical Review. Dr. Francis edited the three-volume reference work Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics and History, (ABC-Clio, 2005), and his current research focuses on the Spanish conquest of Colombia. Dr. Francis also serves as book review editor for the journal Ethnohistory.
Susan Elizabeth Ramírez holds the Penrose Chair of History and Latin American Studies at Texas Christian University. Her major areas of research include landowning elites (Provincial Patriarchs, 1986), native cultures in the sixteenth century (The World Upside Down, 1996), Inca cosmology and religion (T o Feed and Be Fed, 2005), and cross-cultural (mis-)understandings (“From People to Place,” 2006 and “Myth and History.” 2006). She is currently analyzing the visitation of Bishop Baltazar Jaime Martínez Compañón to the northern half of Peru in the 1780s.
Kay Almere Read is Professor of History of Religions in the Religious Studies Department at DePaul University, Chicago. Her particular areas of specializations are the religions of pre-Conquest Mexico, concentrating on Aztec religion and culture, and Mesoamerican mythology. She is the coauthor with Jason J. Gonzalez of Mesoamerican Mythology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000); and the author of Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998). She also has authored a wide range of articles on Aztec rulership, ethics, aesthetics, female deities and cosmology; as well as more general ones on sacrifice and issues of childhood.
John F. Schwaller holds the Ph.D. in Colonial Latin American History from Indiana University. He is known for his books on the secular clergy in sixteenth century Mexico. Additionally, he owns the internet discussion group nahuat-l, and is one of the editors of H-LATAM. A student of Nahuatl, he has published a guide to Nahuatl manuscripts held in US repositories. In recent years he has been studying the process of evangelization through the use of Nahuatl. His long-term project is the writing of a biography of the viceroy don Luis de Velasco the younger. He is currently a Professor of History and Spanish at the University of Minnesota, Morris, where he also serves as Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and Dean. [End Page vi]
David Tavárez is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Vassar College. His publications include articles in Historia Mexicana, Colonial Latin American Review, the Journal of Early Modern History, and seven book chapters. His works in progress include a book on native responses to idolatry extirpation in Central Mexico, a monograph on colonial Zapotec cosmology and mythohistorical performances, and collaborative projects on Nahua historical and doctrinal texts.
Camilla Townsend is Associate Professor of History at Colgate University and is in her eighth year of study of the Nahuatl language. She has written extensively on colonial experience in the Americas, and is the author of two scholarly books, several anthology chapters, and numerous articles in such journals as the American Historical Review, Colonial Latin American Review, and The Journal of Women’s History. She has a forthcoming book on doña Marina, who was herself one of the enslaved women of the type discussed in this issue. [End Page vii]
